From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2005-02-23T08:09:01+09:00
Subject: Re: any ideas on how to get readline support in OS X 10.3?

Thanks, I know I can install my own copies of things that the OS already
has, but a ruby build that doesn't manage to use what's already there
isn't "just working", and this is a consistent problem when people try
to package ruby up - there package has links to local libs not in the
package.

Anybody got ruby building against the system's readline?

Cheers,
Sam

Quoting gavin@refinery.com, on Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 10:54:30PM +0900:
> On Feb 21, 2005, at 7:50 PM, Sam Roberts wrote:
> >I just got this working for ruby1.8 on OS X 10.2... then upgraded.
> >
> >The old hack involved installing the headers for a library that was
> >actually there, but with 10.3 and recent devel tools the headers ARE
> >there, but I still can't get it working.
> 
> I just re-installed everything on a brand new machine. I forgot about 
> readline at first, but then I simply downloaded the gnu version of 
> readline, compiled and installed it, and rebuilt ruby. No Fink, no 
> Apple libraries. It just worked.
> 
>